Aristotelianism versus Communitarianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11308558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelvin Knight (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-273 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Analyse & Kritik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0171-5860 • E-ISSN: 2365-9858 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/auk-2005-0203 |
| OpenAlex | W2405165152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Alasdair MacIntyre is an Aristotelian critic of communitarianism, which he understands to be committed to the politics of the capitalist and bureaucratic nation-state. The politics he proposes instead is based in the resistance to managerial institutions of what he calls ‘practices’, because these are schools of virtue. This shares little with the communitarianism of a Taylor or the Aristotelianism of a Gadamer. Although practices require formal institutions. MacIntyre opposes such conservative politics. Conventional accounts of a ‘liberal-communitarian debate’ in political philosophy face the dilemma that Alasdair MacIntyre, often identified as a paradigmatic communitarian, has consistently and emphatically repudiated this characterization. Although neo-Aristotelianism is sometimes seen as a philosophical warrant for communitarian politics, MacIntyre’s Aristotelianism is opposed to communitarianism. This paper explores the rationale of that opposition
Aristotelianism · Common good · Communitarianism · Dilemma · Epistemology · Law and economics · Liberalism · Opposition (politics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |